Question 1

What are the key takeaways from Adam Fishman's episode on Lenny's Podcast?

Accepted Answer

1. Build balanced growth teams: Don't search for unicorn candidates - hire to fill competency gaps across execution, customer knowledge, strategy, and communication. 2. Onboarding is your highest-leverage growth investment: It's the only feature 100% of users touch and the first chance to deliver on your brand promise. 3. Favor internal hires for growth roles: They already have customer knowledge, faster time to results, and you know what you're getting. 4. Use proxy metrics to measure onboarding impact: Don't wait 90 days for retention data - find early signals that predict long-term success. 5. Treat job decisions as time investments: Apply the same rigor to evaluating companies as investors do - people, mission, and financials.

Question 2

What does Adam Fishman say about growth-leadership and hiring?

Accepted Answer

"The founders of that company were looking for what I would call a silver bullet strategy to their growth challenges. And what they really needed was to create a strategy to add on new growth loops and a system for how to execute against that strategy." - Adam Fishman "The goal of the competency model is not to find a unicorn human being that is an 11 out of 10 on every one of these things, because frankly, that person doesn't exist. The goal is to create a well-rounded team so that you're hiring and balancing skills across your team and that you don't have any gaps in your portfolio." - Adam Fishman "One of the things that people don't easily understand is that most people come to your product with an emotional frame and a lot of people want to appeal to their logical brain right away. And the reality is, don't do that. You have to understand the mindset that people are in." - Adam Fishman

Question 3

What are Adam Fishman's views on growth-leadership, hiring, onboarding?

Accepted Answer

Adam Fishman: "The founders of that company were looking for what I would call a silver bullet strategy to their growth challenges. And what they really needed was to create a strategy to add on new growth loops and a system for how to execute against that strategy." Adam Fishman: "The goal of the competency model is not to find a unicorn human being that is an 11 out of 10 on every one of these things, because frankly, that person doesn't exist. The goal is to create a well-rounded team so that you're hiring and balancing skills across your team and that you don't have any gaps in your portfolio."

Adam Fishman

How to build a high-performing growth team | Adam Fishman (Patreon, Lyft, Imperfect Foods)

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Adam Fishman

How to build a high-performing growth team | Adam Fishman (Patreon, Lyft, Imperfect Foods)

Adam Fishman

How to build a high-performing growth team | Adam Fishman (Patreon, Lyft, Imperfect Foods)

TRANSCRIPT

Adam Fishman

How to build a high-performing growth team | Adam Fishman (Patreon, Lyft, Imperfect Foods)